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Filmmaker blasts Bush Iraq strategy

Filmmaker blasts Bush Iraq strategy

"If Americans knew this history, Bush would be out in five minutes," documentary filmmaker Bob Taicher told a crowded Dodds Auditorium yesterday evening.Taicher came to campus to promote his new film, "Rush to War," which criticizes the Bush administration's policies on the Iraq war.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

Run-offs in all freshman government races

Freshmen Connor Diemand-Yauman and J. Brendan McGuire will compete in a runoff for the Class of 2010 presidency, the USG announced yesterday evening.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

Grad student initiates Latin table

"Salve!"The living room echoed with the syllables of a long-dead language as members of the Princeton Latin table greet a new arrival, wet and bedraggled from the driving rain outside.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

Gager reflects on life outdoors

Religion professor emeritus John Gager reflected on the relationship between nature and spirituality last night.About 30 people, mainly students, weathered the rain to attend Gager's talk at Murray-Dodge, entitled "Spirituality & the Outdoors." It was the second event in the Outdoor Spirituality program cosponsored by Outdoor Action and the Office of Religious Life to promote student interaction with the natural world and reflection on those experiences.Outdoor Action director Rick Curtis '79 lightheartedly introduced the speaker."This is a weekly meeting of the John Gager fanclub," Curtis said, noting that Gager is an avid outdoorsman, hiker, skier and rock-climber.Gager, who retired last spring after teaching at the University for 28 years, sat in an armchair with crutches by his side.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

In search of history

Since 1984, art and archaeology professor William Childs '64 GS '71 has awoken most summer mornings at 4:15, early enough to buy fresh bread for the students he brought to Cyprus to excavate the ancient city of Marion.The purpose of the dig, which was completed this year, was to determine the earliest points of interaction between the Cypriot copper mining center and ancient Greece.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

With 17 in the race, a struggle to stand out

Posters bearing doctored photos and funny one-liners still line entryways and lampposts while the remaining candidates for the freshman class offices of president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and social chair await election results.The initial polls closed yesterday afternoon, after candidates completed a week of campaigning to set themselves apart in a broad field of 36 prospective officers.

NEWS | 10/17/2006

Court to rule soon on gay marriages

The state Supreme Court is expected within the next week to rule on the legality of same-sex marriage.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

Fast-a-thon

Students, both Muslim and non-Muslim, gathered last night in the Friend Center to break their day-long fasts.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

Runoffs announced for freshman class officers

Freshmen Connor Diemand-Yauman and J. Brendan McGuire will compete in a runoff for the Class of 2010 presidency, the USG announced earlier this evening.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

Before the fall

Students have enjoyed several days of brisk weather, with temperatures dropping into the 30s and 40s as fall sets in.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

DPS ups patrols after car robbery

Public Safety has beefed up security around the parking lots at the southern end of campus following the theft of a student vehicle, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said last night."We have stepped up patrols.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

Disillusioned, some evangelicals leaving politics, writer says

Evangelical Christians, traditionally supporters of the Republican Party, may not be hitting the polls in great numbers this November, Laurie Goodstein, a reporter for The New York Times, said yesterday in her lecture "Backlash: Are Evangelicals Disillusioned with Politics?""We are seeing the start of disillusionment round three," Goodstein said.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

U. takes lead on Ivy Council

Three Princeton students were named to the 17-person executive board of the Ivy Council ? an organization of student government leaders formed to facilitate idea sharing among Ivy League schools ? during the group's annual spring conference earlier this year.The students' participation in a council meeting last Saturday marked the first time that more than one Princeton student has served on the board, which they said was a sign of Princeton's growing involvement in Ivy Council affairs.Jennifer Mickel '07, the first Princetonian to serve as the council's president, joins Lauren Barnett '08 and Carol Wang '07 on the board.

NEWS | 10/16/2006

USG mulls next steps on deflation

The USG brainstormed ways to engage more students in discussing the University's grading policy Sunday night, during a lengthy meeting that left officers split over whether to work with Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel or bypass her and approach professors directly about implementation of the controversial initiative.The meeting came following a public dispute over the policy between Malkiel, who spearheaded the plan, and USG president Alex Lenahan '07, a longtime opponent of grade deflation efforts.

NEWS | 10/15/2006

The Cannon War

A group calling itself the Order of the Bull's Blood, a secret society at Rutgers University, is claiming responsibility not only for the spate of recent vandalism of Princeton property, but also for the theft of one of the University's cannons in 1875.The group, which also goes by the name Lodge 443, says its goals are twofold: first, to return the cannon to Rutgers and second, to have another Princeton-Rutgers football game."It's the oldest tradition," a member of the group told The Daily Princetonian, referring to the first intercollegiate football game.

NEWS | 10/15/2006

Dream expert in a nightmare battle

Charles McPhee '85's life, at least until last June, could have been described as a dream come true.McPhee ? who knew as a freshman that he wanted to write his senior thesis on dreams ? managed to parlay that early interest into a career, spending the past 20 years treating sleep disorders and revealing the method behind the seeming madness of dreams.Drawing on an online database of a half-million dreams, he is one of the field's most respected and innovative figures.Last spring, though, McPhee experienced what can best be described as a nightmare: he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ? better known as Lou Gehrig's disease ? an almost invariably fatal neurological condition for which there is no cure."I feel locked out, in a way.

NEWS | 10/15/2006

E-mails grow as grade fight flares

The recent spate of lengthy emails on the University's grading policy from USG president Alex Lenahan '07 and Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel have been informative and discussion-provoking, if not persuasive, students said in interviews Sunday night.Others said, though, that they would appreciate some brevity on what they admit is a complex issue."I guess one could argue that they could have been a little more to the point, but they seemed to contain a good amount of research ? data as to why each individual held their point of view," Lear Janiv '07 said, adding that "I don't think it's really changed anyone's ideas fundamentally."Lenahan's four emails in the past two weeks ? long, detailed and set in dark blue 18.5-point type ? have assailed the grading plan and urged students to talk to their professors about it.

NEWS | 10/15/2006

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